. . . . . . . "3"^^ . . . . . . . "Jacob Kovco"@en . . . . . "Melbourne, Australia"@en . "Jacob Kovco"@en . . "1059723630"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "2006-04-21"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "4913760"^^ . . . . "Private Kovco in uniform"@en . . . . . "Australia" . . . . . . . "Jacob Bruce \"Jake\" Kovco (25 September 1980 \u2013 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was \"irresponsibly self-inflicted\", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he \"disregarded the possible consequences of danger\"."@en . . . . "Baghdad, Iraq"@en . . . "2002"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Jacob Kovco"@en . . . . "23097"^^ . . "Australia"@en . . . . "Jacob Bruce \"Jake\" Kovco (25 September 1980 \u2013 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was \"irresponsibly self-inflicted\", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he \"disregarded the possible consequences of danger\"."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "1980-09-25"^^ . "2006"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "2002"^^ . . . . . . . . .